Mondo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mondo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 849K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
- ITItaly≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a short form of a personal name ending with -mondo, as for example Belmondo, Boemondo, Raimondo.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mondo is read(measured from records)
Mondo is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 5 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English35%
A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
net, pure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili11%
serval (medium-sized African wild cat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mondo in French.
- Italian7.1%
from a short form of a personal name ending with -mondo, as for example Belmondo, Boemondo, Raimondo.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
world
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.1%
first-person singular present indicative of mondar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mondo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mondo | 21 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Mondo | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 476 | 1 in 445K | 476 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 497K | listed | Mondo | 11 |
| US United States | 392 | 1 in 849K | 492 | Mondo | 170 |
| AR Argentina | 318 | 1 in 143K | 318 | — | — |
| UG Uganda | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 170K | listed | — | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 153 | 1 in 22K | 153 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Domenico Mondob. 1723ITItalian painter (1723-1806)
- Vincenzo Mondob. 1925ITItalian politician (1925-2004)
- Lorenzo Mondob. 1931ITItalian writer and journalist (1931–2022)
- Natale Mondob. 1952ITItalian police officer (1952–1988)
- Michael Mondob. 1972PGPapua New Guinean rugby league footballer
- Joel Mondob. 1988DEGerman basketball player
- Ray MondoSLdrummer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 492 | #46,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 488 | #41,924 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 476 | #17,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 392 | #52,851 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 318 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 153 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mondo come from?
- from a short form of a personal name ending with -mondo, as for example Belmondo, Boemondo, Raimondo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Mondo mean?
- In English, A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
- In which country does Mondo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Mondo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mondo.
- Where is Mondo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mondo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mondo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 476 people named Mondo, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mondo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mondoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mondo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.